April Meeting Agenda

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Objective:

Develop a professional appraisal system that combines quality assurance with professional growth. The system should incorporate the desired outcomes and features articulated in the January meeting.

Key Steps in the Process

1. Define the Sandbox

• The mandate
• Essential elements
• Best practice
• Decision-making process
• Success criteria

2. Framing the Model

• Design the container
• Web tool
• Other alternatives

3. Develop the Process
Components to consider:

• Formative/summative components
• Time lines for professional growth activities
• Roles and goals of personnel involved
• Roles within the process (observer/observee, coach, mentor, supervisor)
• Differentiated procedures for different groups of teachers (homeroom/specials/new/veteran)
• Observing teaching
• Evaluation
• Due process
• Teacher developed individual professional growth plan
• Digital professional portfolios
• Self-reflection
• Planning documents – unit plans, lesson-plans etc.
• Teaching artifacts such as assessment tools, student work samples etc.
• Samples of student work or other evidence of student learning
• Parent and community communications
• Log of professional development activities or engagement in school projects
• Student and parent surveys

4. Plan for Implementation
Training to to consider:

• The Framework for Teaching
• Self-assessment of practice
• Goal-setting
• Creating a professional development plan
• Participating in professional community
• Observing teaching
• Building trust
• Norms of collaboration
• Peer coaching
• Professional conversations
• Group development

Develop implementation and training time line